Our Arabic Language Textbook introduces different thematic units for 1st grade students. Starting with preparation lessons, this textbook includes different activities to help students become acclimated to Our Arabic Language learning:

1. Naming Exercises: Things, people, jobs, activities, and parts of things
2. Matching Exercises: Creating relationships with objects, so children can learn to recognize wholes and parts
3. Direction Exercises
4. Time and Place Relation Exercises
5. Length, Size, and Color Exercises
6. Rummage Exercises
7. Line Drawing Exercises
8. Compositions Exercises

Thirty-two units are distributed into 2 parts; each part containing a variety of subjects that introduce social, religious, and cultural aspects of our children’s daily life. Part 2 includes 16 units (115 pages) containing titles, such as How to Treat Animals, Snow, Friday Prayer, Five Senses, Dentist, the Earth and more. Throughout the themes of each lesson, students practice the 4 language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. They also have more exercises on suggested letters, read and match activities, abstract exercises for letters and vowels, listening, chanting exercises, and different associative activities.

This series comes in 6 levels consisting of 2 parts each, except for Level 6. Each level contains 2 student textbooks (one for each part) and a handwriting book.

The I Love Arabic Series comes to you from expert language teachers living in over 41 European countries. It focuses on teaching the Arabic language to non-native speakers, especially benefiting those who have little time to commit to Arabic throughout the weekdays, and makes learning easy by covering several educational levels: Kindergarten level for ages 3-5 years old and levels 1-6 for ages 6-11 years old. Three systematic divisions (sounds, words and syntactical structure, and conversational practices) enable the learner to generate language accurately in a variety of highly successful modern techniques. These focus sections present the Arabic language clearly and inclusively to meet the needs of Western learners. This curriculum develops fluency by communication, discovery, realization, and then application. It helps Arabic learners to deal confidently with Arabic culture, plus different types of reading and listening passages

1. Reading techniques are developed through the study of a wide selection of authentic reading passages, including classic Arabic without concentration on spoken dialect. Regular vocabulary exercises examine word building techniques.
2. Careful balances of authentic and scripted listening materials build confidence whilst offering the ability to communicate with native Arabic speakers.
3. A presentation of Arabic culture patterns help Western children to connect with their Arabic speaking peers in other parts of the world.

Student Text: The student text is the first step of I Love Arabic Series (from 7 years old) and is supported by a comprehensive workbook, handwriting book, and teacher case. The text is comprised of 16 units discussing critical issues of a child’s world. Each unit is divided accordingly:

• Reading Dialogue: Simple and short passages comprising linguistic structures of sounds, vocabulary, expressions, and syntax structures, aim to facilitate learning by teaching the language process and communication.
• Vocabulary: Vocabulary words are taken directly from reading dialogue. They are combined with graphics to further student understanding and sensory perception.
• Conversation: Conversational exercises encourage students to participate in classroom activities, apply reading material within dialogue, and ultimately become fluent speakers.
• Sounds: The Arabic language is introduced sound by sound to avoid difficulties that students may encounter while learning letters with similar appearance or sound.

Workbook: The patterns of exercises include:

• Listening Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for new vocabularies and expressions.
• Reading Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for the meaning of dialogue expressions.
• Vocabulary: New vocabulary is listed to help with student memorization.
• New Phrases: More exercises to support the student text.
• Writing Composition: This section focuses on word expressions and sentences to reinforce more complete writing skills.
• Writing: Students practice writing letters and then joining them to become words. Illustrations help students to visualize words.
• Illustrated Dictionary: An illustrated dictionary appears at the end of the workbook and includes word sets found throughout the lessons making memorization easy.

Handwriting Book: Students practice writing Arabic letters, words, and then expressions.
Teacher Case: Consists of:

1. Teacher Guide: Tips on efficient teaching practices.
2. Posters to be used as classroom visual aids.
3. Audio tapes.

1. Student Text: The student text is the first step of I Love Arabic Series (from 7 years old) and is supported by a comprehensive workbook, handwriting book, and teacher case. The text is comprised of 16 units discussing critical issues of a child’s world. Each unit is divided accordingly:

• Reading Dialogue: Simple and short passages comprising linguistic structures of sounds, vocabulary, expressions, and syntax structures, aim to facilitate learning by teaching the language process and communication.
• Vocabulary: Vocabulary words are taken directly from reading dialogue. They are combined with graphics to further student understanding and sensory perception.
• Conversation: Conversational exercises encourage students to participate in classroom activities, apply reading material within dialogue, and ultimately become fluent speakers.
• New Vocabularies: New vocabularies are listed aim to enrich children’s linguistic account.
• Sounds: The Arabic language is introduced sound by sound to avoid difficulties that students may encounter while learning letters with similar appearance or sound.
• New Phrases: More exercises to compos right structured sentences.
• Reading: Revision for the short passages comprising linguistic structures of sounds, vocabulary, expressions, and syntax structures.
• Illustrated Dictionary: An illustrated dictionary appears at the end of the Textbook and includes word sets found throughout the lessons making memorization easy.

2. Workbook: The patterns of excersises include:

• Listening Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for new vocabularies and expressions.
• Reading Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for the meaning of dialogue expressions.
• Reading Dialogue: Answering questions about unit graphics aims to support the communication skill.
• Vocabulary: New vocabulary is listed to help with student memorization.
• Composition: This section focuses on word expressions and sentences to reinforce more complete writing skills.
• Writing: Students practice writing letters and then joining them to become words. Illustrations help students to visualize words.

3. Handwriting Book: Students practice writing Arabic letters, words, and then expressions.
4. Teacher Case: Consists of:

• Teacher Guide: Tips on efficient teaching practices
• Posters to be used as classroom visual aids
• Audio tapes

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We, at Noorart, believe that teaching language is a critical tool in communication and ultimately in the development of knowledge. In our quest to provide our customers with quality materials, we are pleased to offer the Learn Arabic series. It employs modern methods of teaching foreign language to successfully teach the Arabic language to students in K-12th grade. This series was founded upon the following three fundamentals of teaching languages presented in an Islamic context:
1. Elements: Sounds, letters, phrases, and pronunciation
2. Skills: Reading, writing, speaking, and listening
3. Linguistic Functions: Introduction, greetings, description , requests, and apologies.
Series Contents:
The Learn Arabic series consists of textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals for levels K-12th grade. The textbooks aim to present basic elements of the Arabic language and their functions, while the activity books focus on enrichment material with special emphasis on writing. The teacher’s manuals offer tips on teaching Arabic efficiently with positive results.
Support Material:
Teachers will be pleased with the full array of support materials available, such as a collection of audio records, posters, and cards. These books also include ideas for additional activities, such as chants, competitions, and linguistic plays. All of these materials will help to make each lesson exciting and active for students.
Student Textbook:
The Student Textbooks are comprised of 24 units: 18 basic units of new material, plus an additional 6 units for revision which appear after every 4th unit. Each basic unit contains 3 lessons of new material talks about: daily works and activities, family, relevant, and Identity, and the services of around environment, and including dialog text, expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. While at part 2 the lessons talks about: caring about cleaning. The book concentrates on daily activities, identity, family and relatives, society and services, health, holidays and religious occasions and hoppy and time spending. And The lessons applied through dialogue and speech skills, conversations, vocabulary and listening, grammatical structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities, such as selections of Qur’an, ahadith and anasheed. These textbooks also include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.
Activity Book:
The activity books simply enhance the material found within the student textbooks, where each basic unit of the student's book has 5 pages in the Activity book. They mainly concentrate on writing skills with some review of verbal skills. The book contains reading, writing sentences & filling the spaces by using pictures, making questions and sentences, dictation and matching. The book concentrates on practicing writing and enhancing what student earn from the textbook. Some of the workbook activities should be completed at home with a parent to strengthen the relationship between home and school.

The new textbooks have been designed resting on the concept of Mahawir or "field of activities", which fall under two or three interrelated units dealing with topics related to the daily life and interests of students. Within each unit are seven to eight 'to the point' lessons dealing with conversational Arabic, reading, vocabulary and linguistic structures, applied grammar, spelling and dictation, review and reinforcement and finally cultural enrichment.
In addition each textbook contains a supplement of 4 to 5 units focusing on Islamic themes.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 2 textbook teaches Arabic language; it is part of a series of educational books intended for students learning Arabic as a second language. It includes 16 lessons on different topics in daily life: the morning, going to the dentist, welcomes, and car safety.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 2 textbook teaches non-Arabic speakers to recognize the sounds and shapes of the Arabic letters and how to read and write them. This level also includes a discussion of singular and dual words, pronouns, interrogative words, adverbs, demonstrative pronouns, and the past tense.
The Arabic Language Friends Level 2 textbook teaches non-Arabic speakers a lot of vocabulary and expressions used in daily life: parts of the body, family members, feelings, flags and nationalities, and the clock and time.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 2 textbook is a part of the Arabic Language Friends educational series and is one of Dar Al-Manhal's unique books. It should be used with the Arabic Language Friends Level 2 workbook.

Objectives of the book:

• Introducing the names of things surrounding the student.
• Introducing colors – recognize landscape.

Grammatical structures:

• The Imperative verb.
• The 1st person pronoun.

The linguistic resources:

• Lesson (Season).
• Lesson (Take).
• Lesson (Branch).
• Lesson (Red).
• Lesson (Pink).
• Lesson (White).
• Lesson (Picking).
• Lesson (Stop).
• Lesson (Shadow).
• Lesson (Exceeding).

This series seeks to teach children and enhance the linguistic skills for non-Arabic speakers Here are some of the highlighted objectives:

1. Endearing Arabic language to students and enable them to understand its meanings when listening.
2. Allow students to read Arabic language a correct loud reading while getting through what they are reading.
3. Enrich students with great linguistic resources so they would be able to format correct Arabic sentences.
4. Educate students with the features of Arabic and Islamic culture.
5. Allow students to learn other subjects in Arabic.
6. And all this would help students to recite The Holy Quran, understand its meanings and perform Islamic rituals in Arabic.

This series relays on five main fundamentals are:

1. Psychological bases.
2. Linguistic bases.
3. Cultural bases.
4. Educational bases.
5. Social bases.

From here students will learn the linguistic skills in the following order:

1. Listening skill
2. Speaking skill.
3. Reading skill.
4. Writing skill.

We would like to point out the recommended teaching methods for teaching these different linguistic skills:

• Listening and speaking skills: teaching listening and speaking skills aims to:
  1. Accustom students to Arabic sounds.
  2. To aware students to the changing meanings by changing tones in one sentence.
  3. Allow students to mimic the teacher in speech.
  4. Allow students to understand what is heard.
  5. The ability to continue listening to Arabic conversations.
  6. The ability to speak Arabic language a regular speech similar to our children.
• Reading skill: the method of teaching the reading skill will progress according to what education scientists call (the Synthesis method) which is based on benefiting the following methods:
  1. The total method.
  2. The partial method.
  3. The combination method.
  4. The analysis method.
  5. The vocal method.
• The writing skill: the method which is used for this skill in this series books is the direct dictation which benefit from the different dictation methods and they are:
  1. Imparted dictation.
  2. Visual dictation.
  3. Audible dictation.
  4. Experimental dictation.

Time plan:
The books of this series are school books so the time that is acted for is measured by the time of a class which is 45 minutes and we call each class an hour study that means the days specified to study this book may increase or decrease according to the hours specified for a day of studying.

Language used in teaching:
The teacher is obligated to speak, explain, analyze and discuss in formal fluent Arabic language, and he is not allowed to use an intermediary language whatever that language was.

Level Two in the Al-Aafaq fil lugha Al-Arabeya series builds upon the foundations laid in Level One. The students are introduced to more grammar and vocabulary with focus using fun illustrations. Alphabetical knowledge is reinforced and the “tanween” is introduced. Conversational skills are further developed using a broader range of vocabulary. Writing skills are focused upon. Islamic poetry, haddith and Surahs are studied.

The workbook supplements the textbook and includes exercises and activities to enhance comprehension. Coloring activities, word formation and writing practice exercises to reinforce the new grammatical concepts introduced in the textbook. Workbooks are better quality papers.

The second student's book contains 5 units, each with 5 lessons and a test. The book in total includes 25 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a text that presents linguistic activities. The texts in the first twenty lessons are group conversations; the texts in the final five lessons are short stories.

This is the most comprehensive curriculum for teaching non-Arabic in Islamic schools in North America. Where The author who lived and taught in the West; add a great advantage toward this recommendation and aim to focus on similar letters, reading and comprehension, creative writing exercises, ordering, pronunciation, fill in missing letter, matching, time, gender. Strongly recommend for children who have had previous exposure to the Arabic language. It is used by a number of full-time Islamic schools throughout the U.S. and comes highly recommended.

• Preparing and carrying out programs and curricula for teaching Arabic Language and Culture.
• Evaluating programs designed for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.
• Preparing and developing measurement and evaluation tools in the field of teaching Arabic as a second or foreign language.
• Enhancing cooperation with other institutions interested in promoting the Arabic language, by carrying out Arabic courses abroad.

• Teaches Arabic as a primary language
• Arabic only
• Vowelled letters (tashkeel)
• Focus on similar letters, reading and comprehension, creative writing exercises, ordering, pronunciation, fill in missing letter, matching, time, gender
• Grammar: subject, object, prepositions, singular, plural
• Textbook focus: listening, strong emphasis on writing, reading and speaking
• Workbooks focus: Fun exercises and games that support the textbook
• Teaches more than 1,500 words throughout the four levels
• Evaluations follow every 5 lessons
• Common terminology
• Illustrated dictionary plus vocabulary list
• 25 Lessons

Features:

• Teaches Arabic as a primary language
• Arabic only
• Uses vowelled letters (diactrical marks, or tashkeel)
• Textbooks focus: listening, writing, reading, and speaking
• Workbooks focus: exercises and games that support the textbook
• Evaluations follow every 5 lessons
• Exposes students to common terminology
• Illustrated dictionary plus vocabulary list
• Ideal for Western students; themes are heavily cultural, not necessarily Islamic.
• A comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers in full-time Islamic and public schools